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FELIPE LUCIANO (1947- )
BlackPast
(2020)
Abstract
Philip “Felipe” Luciano, poet, activist, musicologist, and journalist was born November 24, 1947 in East Harlem to Aurora Olmo Luciano, a factory worker and practical nurse, and Joseph Luciano, Jr., He was reared in East Harlem and Brownsville. Aurora, a devout Pentecostal, read extensively to Felipe, while teacher Ethel Schapiro exposed him to Shakespeare, Hemingway, Yiddish, and Judaism. As a pre-teen, Luciano joined the Canarsie Chaplains gang, which led to a second-degree attempted manslaughter conviction for his involvement in the stabbing death of a rival gang member in Bushwick (1964). He served two years at Coxsackie Correctional where he completed his GED and upon release, HARYOU-ACT and SEEK assisted his Queens College-CUNY entry as a political science major.
Keywords
- poet,
- activist,
- musicologist,
- journalist,
- The Young Lords,
- Last Poets
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall October 10, 2020
Publisher Statement
Philip “Felipe” Luciano, poet, activist, musicologist, and journalist was born November 24, 1947 in East Harlem to Aurora Olmo Luciano, a factory worker and practical nurse, and Joseph Luciano, Jr., He was reared in East Harlem and Brownsville. Aurora, a devout Pentecostal, read extensively to Felipe, while teacher Ethel Schapiro exposed him to Shakespeare, Hemingway, Yiddish, and Judaism. As a pre-teen, Luciano joined the Canarsie Chaplains gang, which led to a second-degree attempted manslaughter conviction for his involvement in the stabbing death of a rival gang member in Bushwick (1964). He served two years at Coxsackie Correctional where he completed his GED and upon release, HARYOU-ACT and SEEK assisted his Queens College-CUNY entry as a political science major.
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